Team Trump looks to start off on right foot with Mexico president elect

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (L) and US Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen disembark from their plane in Mexico City, where Pompeo will meet with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. (Photo: AFP/Pedro Pardo) Secretary of State Mike Pompeo led the high-level delegation to meet the leftist leader known as “AMLO,” who will take office on December 1 after winning a landslide election victory. Trump’s son-in-law and senior aide Jared Kushner, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin were also along for the one-day trip, which included meetings with Mexico’s outgoing President Enrique Pena Nieto and Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray. Pompeo was all smiles as he met Lopez Obrador on the leftist leader’s own turf — an aging Mexico City house with scant security where he has set up his transition team’s offices. “We look forward to working with President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador,” Pompeo said later at a press conference. “It was a priority for me to begin building our relationship with him and his team.” Lopez Obrador’s pick for foreign minister, Marcelo Ebrard, also said the meeting had been positive. “It was a frank, respectful and cordial dialogue. It was a successful first conversation,” he told a separate press conference. “I believe we can be reasonably optimistic that Mexico will be able to find a basis for understanding and have a better relationship with the United States.” PUTTING TRUMP ‘IN HIS PLACE’? US-Mexican relations have been strained since Trump… [Read full story]